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Kingpoleon
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« on: January 29, 2020, 11:23:07 AM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English

Non-Rhotic North American(special snowflake)
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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2020, 03:22:19 PM »

So, when people in non-rhotic places learn the letters...how does that go?
teacher-the next letter is Q...pronounced "que", we don't use it very much, can anyone think of a word that has a Q in it?
kid-Quincy!
teacher-very good, the next letter is R, pronounced "aaa"....
Listen to JFK - non-rhotic speakers don’t quite say card as cod. Generally, it’s what I call a very weak R - “The greater ahr knowledge increases, the more ahr ignorance is known.” I have met three or four others in the South who are young and non-rhotic, and thus far our universal experience is that it is treated by a speech therapist and seen as a speech impediment. (Although one said it gave him a more distinguishable and distinguished voice.)
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2020, 05:21:38 PM »

Extremely rhotic: more-rhotic-than-not pronunciations of most words, plus a deliberate cultivation of the intrusive R as an affected regionalism.
Deliberate cultivation of language is... iffy, to me.
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Kingpoleon
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« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2020, 09:11:14 PM »

Bernie adds "r's" actually. Take how he pronounces "Nevada" as an example: "Nevader."

Actually my aunt, grandma, and mom do the same thing. That's being raised in Brooklyn for you.
Sometimes (semi) non-rhotic speakers have intrusive rs.
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